Shu Wan, Zhihong Zhu, Kuibo Yin, Shi Su et al.
Abstract For wearable sensors, realizing a strong and conformal contact with skin is essential to precisely detect human vital signals and enable human–machine interaction. Herein, a facile strategy is reported to fabricate a sensor with ultrahigh skin conformity by adopting a commercial make‐up acc...
Muhammad Ismail, Yawei Du, Longbing Ling, Xinsong Li
Artesunate-heparin conjugate (ART-HEP) based nanocapsules as drug delivery vehicle was developed for intracellular release of ART in malaria therapy. Owing both hydrophobic and hydrophilic moieties, the conjugate was successfully self-assembled into artesunate-heparin nanocapsules (ART-HEP-NCPs) wit...
Yuting Shen, Tao Xu, Xiao-Dong Tan, Longbing He et al.
Abstract Molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2 ) and bismuth telluride (Bi 2 Te 3 ) are the two most common types of structures adopted by 2D chalcogenides. In view of their unique physical properties and structure, 2D chalcogenides have potential applications in various fields. However, the excellent propert...
Hui Dong, Feng Xu, Ziqi Sun, Xing Wu et al.
Quantum dot (QD) photovoltaic devices are attractive for their low-cost synthesis, tunable band gap and potentially high power conversion efficiency (PCE). However, the experimentally achieved efficiency to date remains far from ideal. Here, we report an in-situ fabrication and investigation of sing...
Tao Xu, Yilong Zhou, Xiao-Dong Tan, Kuibo Yin et al.
Single‐wall nanotubes of boron nitride (BN) are among the most promising quasi‐1D materials with outstanding mechanical strength. However, synthesizing them in a controlled and reproducible way remains challenging. Here the authors show a technique of creating BN tubes by cutting bilayer BN sheets w...
Yawei Du, Wei Zhang, Ruiyu He, Muhammad Ismail et al.
7-Ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin (SN38), as a highly active topoisomerase I inhibitor, is 200-2000-fold more cytotoxic than irinotecan (CPT-11) commercially available as Camptosar®. However, poor solubility and low stability extensively restricted its clinical utility. In this report, dual SN38 phosph...
Tao Xu, Xiao Xie, Kuibo Yin, Jun Sun et al.
The physical processes and the relationships between focused electron beam-induced sculpting and deposition based on graphene are investigated to realize controllable atomic-scale nanofabrication on graphene. An improvement of the classical model is proposed to explain the experiments quantitatively...
Shuo Fang, Yongpeng Hou, Longbing Ling, Danquan Wang et al.
In this study, a newly liposomal formulation of camptothecin (CPT) based on the dimeric camptothecin glycerophosphorylcholine (di-CPT-GPC) prodrug was developed. The di-CPT-GPC prodrug was synthesized through the heterogeneous conjugation of camptothecin-20 succinate with glycerophosphorylcholine. I...
Luping Tang, Longbing He, Lei Zhang, Kaihao Yu et al.
The manipulation and tailoring of the structure and properties of semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) is significant particularly for the design and fabrication of future nanodevices. Here, a novel domain-confined growth strategy is reported for controllable fabrication of individual monocrystal hollow...
Ruiyu He, Yawei Du, Longbing Ling, Muhammad Ismail et al.
Bexarotene (Bex), a synthetic retinoid X receptor-selective activator, has been proved to be an efficacious chemotherapeutic agent. But, its clinical application is limited due to the poor solubility. In this report, dual bexarotene-tailed phospholipid (DBTP) conjugate based nanovesicles were prepar...
Md. Fahim Arefin, Chowdhury Farhan Ahmed, Redwan Ahmed Rizvee, Carson K. Leung et al.
In the modern era, data is precious. Therefore, a huge amount of data is being generated every moment and data mining extracts insight from this data. Item similarity mining is a special domain of data mining that helps discover inherent and important characteristics of a dataset. It is a popular re...
Shu Wan, Zhihong Zhu, Kuibo Yin, Shi Su et al.
In article number 1700374, Litao Sun and co-workers report a novel method to fabricate a strain sensor with ultrahigh skin conformity. The ultrahigh skin conformity, together with high sensitivity and rapid response time, makes the sensor attractive for precisely monitoring vital human signals and f...
Luping Tang, Yiwei Liu, Xiao Wang, Ranran Wang et al.
Controlling the shape, morphology, and porosity of hollow nanostructures is a pivotal issue for adjusting the characteristics of tailor-made nanomaterials to expand their application to more fields. Although many hollow metal oxides have been developed, studies on the construction of hollow bimetal ...
Longbing He, Lei Shangguan, Yu-Tian Gao, Sen Yang et al.
Abstract Manipulation of nano-objects is fascinating as it not only facilitates the understanding of the essential properties of nanomaterials, but also enlightens the design of future nano-devices beyond current micro-electro-mechanical systems. In this paper, a piston-cylinder-configured nano-moto...
Longbing He, Sen Yang, Lei Shangguan, Jiong-Hao Zhu et al.
Lei Zhang, Longbing He, Yufeng Yang, Hong Hua et al.
Abstract Beam-induced heating effect on nanoscale samples is a crucial question as it strongly influences the interpretation of observed unusual behaviors. This question is currently under debate without a convincing conclusion. Here, using silver nitride (Ag 3 N) nanoparticles as temperature labels...